The Good - The Road to the Top
My friend that I mentioned earlier, B.J., and me would always go to the movie theaters together in middle school. He was always the one who chose the movies. We saw some crap like one of the Scary Movies, average to above-average films like S.W.A.T., and some pretty damn good ones like Master & Commander. Though the quality of the movies always varied, there was one constant, playing Gauntlet Legends in the arcade.
At first, we just kept making different characters, but we realized that we could recover our old characters by remember our three letter name and three digit password. I was always an archer and he a valkyrie.
Over the course of two years, we kept going at it and going at it. At some point, we beat the game, but our main goal was always to get the top score. There were times when B.J. would forget his password, putting our objective in jeopardy, but he would always remember in the nick of time.
Eventually, we were the reached the second and third positions. We weren't far off from our goal, but with B.J. being a member of the band, he had a lot on his schedule as the end of our summer vacation loomed. We wanted to get it done fast.
The next time we went to the movies, we started up Gauntlet Legends, it surprises me to this day that it was never occupied when we went, and we were so engrossed in it that we completely forgot about the movie we were supposed to see. Luckily, we never bought the tickets, giving us an extra supply of cash if needed.
About two hours later, we decided that we had enough and decided to see where we placed. There in the #1 and #2 spots were KCF and BMB, respectively. After a countless amount of hours and who knows how much money, we finally got there.
I don't know whether or not those at the top were actually players or fake players that the game's program made up in order to get people, like me and B.J., to spend a bunch of quarters trying to reach the top, but goddammit we made it!
We never played the arcade version again, but I bought the N64 version and we ended up with level 99 characters there as well
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